Language and Medium

I believe that Jacob brought up a very poignant observation of the fact that language is independent of the medium to which it expresses, as I later added language in itself exists in our minds and then uses visual or auditory vehicles with which to reveal itself. I think that literature could be considered (or at least as one condition to what it is) that it involves a skill, more specifically a skill with words. This is why I do not agree that speeches are not literature, if an orator givves a speech or writes an essay, the content is judged the same, that is whether the words and word choice, stylistic elements, and content, are expressed with skill and superior quality. This leaves our concept of literature open to the concept of blogs, tweets, and yes even Facebook posts being considered literature or possibly literary, but I do not disagree that electronic media can be just as capable an outlet for revealing a talent with prose and verbal communication as books or written language.